This worksheet covers religious fundamentalism for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes definitions by Almond and Bruce as well as theories by Bruce on religion as a form of cultural defence, Giddens on globalisation and fundamentalism, Castells on responses to postmodernity and Huntington’s on the clash of civilisations.

This worksheet covers the Postmodern theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Davie’s believing without belonging, Hervieu-Leger’s spiritual shopper, Bauman’s religion in postmodernity, Lyon’s Jesus in Disneyland and Giddens on reflexivity. It also includes Heelas on the New age in postmodernity.

This worksheet covers the reasons for the growth of religious groups and movements for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by postmodernism, practical reasons by Heelas, relative deprivation, secularisation, marginalisation and status frustration and finally globalisation and the media. It also has empty boxes under each theory so the students can think and write whether the explanation applies mostly to women, the middle class, young people, or all three groups.

This worksheet covers New Age Movements for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Bruce and his features of the NAM, Sutcliffe and his characterisation of the New Age and Heelas with individual spirituality.

This worksheet covers New Religious Movements for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Baker and his features of NRMs, Wallis’ threefold typography and Stark and Bainbridge’s distinction between cults and sects.

This worksheet covers the definition and examples for religious organisation. It also has a table for students to complete on religious categorisations to check their understanding for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology.

This worksheet covers ethnicity and religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes the different religions practised by minority groups and the reasons why they are more religious than the white UK population including the functionalist view, Bruce’s cultural transition and defence, Bird’s five factors, marginalisation and status frustration, social deprivation and compensation and finally social identity. The reasons as to why young Muslim are more religious are also explored.

This worksheet covers age and religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes the reasons why older people are more likely to be religious including disengagement, religious socialisation and ill health and death. It also includes why younger people are less religious including the declining attraction of religion, the expanding spiritual marketplace, the privatisation of religion, declining religious education and the secular spirituality.

This worksheet covers the Feminist theories of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Armstrong, Davie, Bird, De Beauvoir, El Saadwai and Watson. It also explores whether religion is patriarchal and why women are more religious than men.

This worksheet covers the Interactionist theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories from Berger’s sacred canopy to Stark and Bainbridge’s religion as a compensator.

This worksheet covers Max Weber’s theory of the protestant ethic which led to the spirt of capitalism in religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology.

This worksheet covers the Neo Marxism theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Bloch and his principle of hope, Gramsci on hegemony, Maduro on liberation theology.

This worksheet covers the Marxist theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Karl Marx including the ‘opium of the people’, Althusser’s ideological state apparatus and Lenin’s spiritual gin conception.

This worksheet covers the Functionalist theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Durkheim’s theory of Totemism, Parsons’ universal guideline for human action, Malinowski’s life crisis and Bellah’s theory of civil religion.

This worksheet covers the key definitions of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology, including the substantive, functional and constructive definitions.

This worksheet covers the arguments for and against the question of whether the nuclear family is universal. It includes Murdock, New Right, The Nayar, same sex families, lone parent families and communes and religious beliefs.

This worksheet covers family diversity which is occurring in British families and households. It is split into two sections covering modernism on family diversity (Functionalism, New Right, Chester’s Neo Conventional Family and The Rapoports) and postmodernism on family diversity (The Individualisation Thesis, The Connectedness Thesis and Life Cycle Diversity).

This worksheet covers the darker side of the family which refers to domestic and child abuse. It includes statistics on both areas and explanations from Radical and Marxist Feminists as well the materialist perspective.

This worksheet covers the domestic division of flavour within families and households which involves gender roles and power within the family. It includes functionalist approaches, the march of progress view with symmetrical families, feminist perspectives, cultural and material explanations and same sex couples gender scripts. It also covers a section on resources and decision making within families too.

This worksheet covers the future of childhood and questions regarding whether childhood is disappearing, whether it has improved and whether we have a more child centred approach today. It covers the march of progress view, toxic childhood, the conflict approach, the disappearance of childhood approach and childhood in postmodernity.